Henry Ford and Grass-roots AmericaA study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s |
Contents
The Automobile Alters the Rural Scene | 14 |
The Ford Name Spreads Across Rural America | 34 |
Barnyard Inventors and the Model T | 59 |
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